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| Title: |
Where flying vultures reveal secrets - Kaziranga |
| Author(s): |
Banerjee, R. |
| Year published: |
1972 |
| Journal: |
Cheetal |
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15 (1) |
| Pages: |
48-50, figs. 1-4 |
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Trade
All Rhino Species
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| I believe, that an organized intellegent body, either at Calcutta or Bombay usually conducts the poaching for rhinos. They have connections with an international gang, for the final disposal of the horn to the outside market The local people staying on the border of the Sanctuary, generally act ... |
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World
Ecology - Habitat
Indian Rhino
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| They have fixed trackways through the vegetation, which they use when going to graze, or to watering places. |
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World
Behaviour - Towards Man
Indian Rhino
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| Most of the wild animals of India, usually run away from danger and conceal themselves in thick cover but the rhino does the opposite. It continues grazing till danger is rather close, and then, instead of retreating and taking over it exposes itself still more, by charging. This peculiar habit... |
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World
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Indian Rhino
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| They have also fixed dung places and each beast has its own wallow. This unfortunate habit helps the poachers to kill them by the pit method. |
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World
Behaviour - Daily Routine
Indian Rhino
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| They have also fixed dung places and each beast has its own wallow. This unfortunate habit helps the poachers to kill them by the pit method. |
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World
Behaviour - Social Behaviour
Indian Rhino
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| Rhinoceroses are territorial and remain on the same range throughout their lives. |
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Distribution - Reasons for decline
Indian Rhino
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| Overhunting, and over-intensive transformation of habitats, have reduced numerous animal populations to the point of extinction. The chief sufferer has been the rhinoceros, which was slaughtered, to satisfy the demands of Chinese pharmacists since the rhinoceros. horn is famous for its alleged a... |
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Value
All Rhino Species
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| The chief sufferer has been the rhinoceros, which was slaughtered, to satisfy the demands of Chinese pharmacists since the rhinoceros. horn is famous for its alleged aphrodisiac properties. |
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Where flying vultures reveal secrets - Kaziranga
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